Romans 3:3 Cross References - WPNT

³ So, what if some did not believe? Their unbelief will not nullify God’s faithfulness, will it?

³⁵ The heaven and the earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

¹⁶ Now we have all received from His fullness, yes, grace upon grace.

⁶ However, it is not as though the Word of God has failed! For not all who have descended from Israel are ‘Israel’.

¹⁶ (However, they did not all obey the gospel; because Isaiah says: “LORD, who has believed our message?”)

¹ So now I say, God did not reject His people, did He? Of course not! Why I myself am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin! ² God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel saying: ³ “LORD, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to take my life!” ⁴ But what does the divine response say to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” ⁵ Even so then at this present time, there is a remnant according to an election by grace. ⁶ Now if by grace, it is no longer from works; otherwise the grace is no longer grace. But if from works, it is no longer grace; otherwise the work is no longer work. ⁷ What then? What Israel is seeking, this it did not obtain; but the election did obtain it, while the rest were dulled.

²⁹ Because God’s gracious gifts and calling are irrevocable.

¹⁸ So we all, contemplating as in a mirror the glory of the Lord with unveiled face, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, precisely from Lord Spirit.

³ We are obligated to always give thanks to God about you, brothers, and properly so, because your faith is really growing, and the love of each and every one of you towards each other keeps increasing;

¹³ if we are faithless, He remains faithful—He is incapable of denying Himself.

¹ Paul, a slave of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the faith of God’s elect and a real knowledge of the truth that accords with godliness, ² in hope of eternal life —which life God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages of time

² Really, because we are continually hearing good news just like they did, but the word that they heard did not profit them, since they were not intimately united with the faith of those who obeyed.

¹³ Now when God made a promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself ¹⁴ saying, “Indeed, blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.” ¹⁵ And so, after he had been patient, he obtained the promise. ¹⁶ Because since men swear by the greater, and for them the confirming oath puts an end to every dispute, ¹⁷ similarly God, being determined to show even more clearly to the heirs of the promise the unchanging nature of His purpose, guaranteed it by an oath, ¹⁸ so that by two unalterable things in which it is impossible for God to lie we should have a strong encouragement, we who have taken refuge by grasping the hope set before us;